Example sentences of "[noun prp] who [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were too many locked doors — all those leading to the street , tame excuses by the staff , brief interviews with Penumbra who claimed she was so busy and that of course Zambia could go out once she was sure SHe was well enough . |
| 2 | ‘ Your tone would seem to imply that I am some sort of Bluebeard who keeps her incarcerated . |
| 3 | It must be Ortiz who wrote it . ’ |
| 4 | The metal was originally exploited by the Indians of Colombia and Ecuador who recovered it in the form of grains and occasional nuggets from gold-bearing alluvial deposits of rivers draining into the Pacific . |
| 5 | It was Mr Hollins who stopped her . |
| 6 | She refused to listen to the Jeremiahs who predicted she would have to change her operating style once her company came under the scrutiny of the Stock Exchange . |
| 7 | But whose word are we to take here , I wonder , in these conflicting judgements : the backward-looking nostalgia of our postwar Jeremiahs who think they see a golden age of literacy before the war ? |
| 8 | My dinner companions were two Swiss nurses doing a world tour , and Roger Rasmussen , a pensioner front Queensland who said he had been travelling by train for 16 days non-stop . |
| 9 | Their Northern Ireland president is Billy McCormick from Craigavad who tells me that membership is 200 and rising , and new recruits are always welcome . |
| 10 | And I think it was Kipling who said he had six serving maids Who , What , Where , Why , When and How . |
| 11 | Nothing much could happen to her on a sunny September afternoon between here and the launderette , and Mrs Barakhda who ran it was a friend of hers , or the nearest Lili had to a friend . |
| 12 | From there she returned to London to do war work , also accepting commissions as a free-lance illustrator on the basis of which she approached William Johnstone who invited her on to his staff . |
| 13 | Jane Hinton-Clifton , who runs the college in Duke Street , said : ‘ I was visited by two officials of the North Yorkshire TEC who told me our funding was being cut off . |
| 14 | Chris Davis , the paper 's assistant editor , said last night : ‘ It is Mr Rupert Murdoch who feels we should make this handsome and gracious gesture . |
| 15 | Eventually , it was David who found him a good ship and carefully guided him through the process . |
| 16 | She was approached by talking book company chief Clive Stanhope who tells me : ‘ I met Julie when she was in rep in the 60s in a comedy called The City Madam — she was marvellous but the play has n't been performed since . ’ |
| 17 | It was not Marie who saw her . |
| 18 | He dropped it on to the desk in front of Scott who picked it up , studying the outlines of Paula Wilson 's face . |
| 19 | Arlen Specter ( Pennsylvania ) accused her without substantiating evidence of " flat-out perjury " , and introduced without prior notice an affidavit from an acquaintance of Hill who accused her of being a sexual fantasist . |
| 20 | It was Dr Jaffery who told me about two contemporary travel books which rescued the Mughals from being suffocated beneath landslides of silk , diamonds and lapis lazuli — Bernier 's Travels in the Mogul Empire and Manucci 's Mogul India . |
| 21 | Within weeks , Time Out had an article written by London playwright and football fan Mick Mahoney who got it right when he pointed out that ‘ if Nike brought out a crocodile-skin trainer for £140 , it would be a smash ’ . |
| 22 | In the preface to his Guide he claims that ‘ all ( his drawings ) were entirely finished while the subject was before him , for he conceives that studies are lessened in value by being retouched in the house ’ ; but a Miss Weeton who knew him well , and was godmother to one of his children , says that ‘ he is employed all summer in taking sketches , and all the winter in finishing them . |
| 23 | At university it was initially Robert Hewison who persuaded him that ‘ we can make money out of telling jokes . ’ |
| 24 | I met this Frenchman at Masstricht who kissed me on both cheeks . |
| 25 | Reid 's star began to rise with a vengeance last year when he became associated with the stable of Peter Chapple-Hyam who provided him with the horse every jockey wants to have — a Derby winner . |
| 26 | I had seen them with the eyes of a young buy , but Edward who knew them well was able to interpret them with the mind of a man . |
| 27 | Thomson floats it in straight into the hands of Tommy Wright who hits it first time quite sensibly but a bit too strongly straight back to his opposite number . |
| 28 | But sophisticated Sal ( Dylan McDemott ) is n't as convinced about Toby who pursues him until he has to give in to her — er — charms . |
| 29 | It has its own associated pattern of atmospheric circulation , named after Sir Gilbert Walker who identified it early in this century ( Figure 3 ) , and it is also associated with changes in the pattern of surface temperature . |
| 30 | Taskopruzade 's grandfather , for example , studied under Molla Yegan , probably at some time alter 839/1435–6 , and it was Molla Yegan who recommended him for the post at Taskopru . |